#lissa reed

[lgbtqreads]

Do you know any good wlw books featuring chefs/food industry?

Try Perfect Pairing by Rachel Spangler, which is very much that, and Certainly, Possibly, You by Lissa Reed, which I really enjoyed but is considerably less that, although one of the MCs works in a bakery.

[interludepress]

STARTS SUNDAY!! 

It’s a Happy Birthday BookBub deal for author Lissa Reed! Get Book One in Lissa’s Sucre Coeur series, Definitely, Maybe, Yours for 99 cents at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, Smashwords, and the IP Web Store!

Tea? Cookies? Swoon. 

Seattle-based baker Craig Oliver leads a life that is happily routine: baking cupcakes for an enormous family reunion, managing Sucre Coeur for its frequently absent owner and closing out his day with a pint at the local pub. He has a kind heart, a knack for pastry and a weakness for damaged people.

Habitual playboy Alex Scheff is looking to drown his sorrows, but instead discovers that he may have a weakness for Englishmen who carry cookies in their pockets. Can a seemingly incompatible pair find the recipe for love in a relationship they claim is casual?

And be sure to look for the Sucre Coeur  digital boxed set starting Tuesday for the special price of $8.99. The set invoices all three books in the Sucre Coeur series, as well as new bonus content! Pre-order at the IP Web Store, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and Kobo.

[nikolaijanak]

Hey guys, looking for a new book to read?

Look no further!

I know you came to this blog to see my stuff, but I’m here today to plug my friend’s stuff! Lissa Reed just published her book Absolutely, Almost, Perfect, and it’s fantastic.

Quick summary: Craig and his boyfriend, Alex, are invited to Craig’s childhood home in England for his estranged brother’s wedding. What follows is family drama, a too-cute ex-boyfriend, lots of laughs, and enough wedding stress for everyone.

Reading this book feels like watching a fun rom-com in your pajamas with a hot cup of tea. It’s sweet, it’s romantic, and the writing style is charming and funny. The whole book is a joy to read. I can’t recommend it enough.

The characters are likable and believable, especially the main characters, Alex and Craig. The two men’s personalities contrast each other on almost every front, but they also complement each other beautifully. You’ll be rooting for their relationship all the way through.

If you like drama, sappy rom-coms, and fluffy romance, you’ll love Absolutely, Almost, Perfect. You can find it on Amazon, or from the Interlude Press website.

(And while you’re there, check out the two prequels, Definitely, Maybe, Yours and Certainly, Possibly, You.)

[julianwinters]

GREAT ROMANCE BOOKS: Definitely, Maybe, Yours (Book 1 of Sucre Coeur Series) by Lissa Reed

“It’s been several weeks. More than one month, less than four. Who’s counting? It’s the longest one night stand in recorded history, kept determinedly casual with a rigor that would make Casanova envious.”

Follow Lissa ... @lissareedbooks

[hazelandglasz]

This Book Will Make You Want to Watch All Your 1990s British RomCom All Over Again - My Advanced Review of Absolutely, Almost, Perfect, by Lissa Reed

Do you know what happens in a week from now (besides International Breastfeeding Day and the 32nd birthday of Brent Kutzle)?

This beautiful book comes to light, and honestly, the short version of my ARC review is: pre-order it now, you can thank me later.

The long version?

I was lucky enough that @lissareedbooks asked me to be an Advanced Reader for the third and final installment of the Sucre Coeur series.

My love for the two first stories is well documented (just checked my reviews of them here and here, you'll see), but Reed managed to surprise me with this end to her trilogy.

Never did I expect to be in such a rollercoaster of emotions in her talented hands, and yet, there were pages where I went from laughing outloud (in public. No regrets, and no shame either) to clutching my e-reader to my chest to try to send some love to my--er, her babies.

(Her characters. My babies. Moving on)

The humor is spot on, just enough sarcasm to give it depth and realness all along, and a happy ending that warmed my heart.

What struck me in particular, and I want to spend some time on that aspect on my review, is how Lissa Reed doesn't shy away from the mental illness one of her characters is afflicted with.

Anxiety is not overlooked in her story, neither is the need for treatment, neither are the consequences of said treatment when it's medication. It is a part of who Alex is, and while it doesn't define him, it's not shoved under a carpet either, and I adored it.

ALL OF THIS TO SAY that if you like British romantic comedies à la Four Weddings and a Funeral, if you like to see people resolving their tensions with buttercream, if you like(d) Robbie Williams, this book is made for you, and you should pre-order it to get it warm out of the oven (see what I did there ;)) when it comes out next week!

Absolutely, Almost, Perfect is available to pre-order and comes out on August 3rd on InterludePress, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords

[lissareedbooks]

Dearly beloveds, on August 3rd, you are invited to join Craig Oliver, Alex Scheff, and the Oliver clan for a week of wedding hilarity in the English countryside…

Hello, friends! As you might know, Absolutely, Almost, Perfect, my third book and the conclusion to my Sucre Coeur bakery romance series is set for an August 3rd release, and that means I am going to talk about it a lot! But also I am going to bring FUN THINGS to the table, like this link I’m about to drop for a Rafflecopter, which you all should enter for a chance to win an eBook copy of Absolutely, Almost, Perfect.

Absolutely, Almost, Perfect eBook Rafflecopter!

Absolutely is full of the characters you love from previous Sucre Coeur books, all the Craig and Alex you could want, being the best team they can be in the face of British Rom-Com Hijinks. Bridezillas! Cheerfully licentious mothers! Large veterinarians with so much love for soap operas and kittens! Adorably diffident British ex-boyfriends! Streaking! Trespassing! Conflict avoidance! Robbie Williams! And so. Much. Tea.

Come for the wedding, stay for the wisecracks and inappropriate crushes. And don’t forget to enter yourself into the Rafflecopter!

[alysia-constantine-blog]

REVIEW: Absolutely Almost Perfect by Lissa Reed

Absolutely Almost Perfect by Lissa Reed (August 3. 2017); 256 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.

The third book of Reed’s charming Sucre Couer series, Absolutely Almost Perfect returns to the love story of Alex Scheff, a nervous and acerbic American photographer, and Craig Oliver, a level-headed British ex-pat baker, though this installment leaves behind all the previous settings (the Sucre Couer bakery, Seattle) for the Oliver household in England when Craig brings Alex home to meet his family and celebrate the wedding of his brother.

But things, as they often will do when family is involved, do not go perfectly. (You know this; the title hints at this.) To start with, Alex must deal with meeting the family of his love. Anyone who has done this knows how terrifying it can be--probably more so when visiting that family also means having to navigate a foreign culture. Plus, Craig’s very attractive ex is floating around, still in the family’s good graces, and Alex is going to have to contend with meeting him, too. But wait, there’s more! Craig gets along with all his family (his feisty mother, his steadfast father, even the younger twin girls who, like most teenagers, are, well teenagers), with the glaring exception of his oblivious-to-mean-spirited prankster older brother. They’ve had a contentious, bitter relationship since Craig was born, one that has only gotten worse with time.

To top it all off, there’s a wedding in the mix, with all the stress and family weirdness that tends to bring on.

As I began by saying, the books in this series are charming. The characters--especially, but not only, Alex and Craig--are completely realized and so well-drawn I feel as though I know what they’ll say and do next (I usually don’t, but the feeling itself is significant to me). Craig himself is charming (Alex more closely harmonizes with my taste for the acerbic and sweetly bitter (”being a native of the US East Coast will make a person distrustful of the effusiveness or polite restraint preferred in other regions); put that way, I now see that our taste in coffee (strong to the point of bitterness) reflects our social tastes as well).

Great characters aside, what really grabs one about this book is the plot; once I started, I was heroin-level hooked by the drama and urgency of the goings-on. At the heart of this book is love, with dose of reconciliation. Though Alex and Craig are certainly the center of gravity here, it is how a family comes to fit together that matters: anger, jealousy, forgiveness, joy, care and protectiveness all wrap around them and sometimes, as it often is, it’s an ill fit, but it still manages to hold.

[interludepress]

Coming Feb. 12: SUCRE COEUR Digital Boxed Set!

Interlude Press will launch a new line of digital boxed sets February 12th with author Lissa Reed’s delicious celebration of love, laughter, friendship and pastry—the SUCRE COEUR series!

Fans of Craig, Alex, Sarita, and Maritza can savor their entire Sucre Coeur romance series in one sweet bundle with a special bonus curation of Craig's favorite recipes. This boxed set includes the following full-length novels, plus a collection of confectionery recipes developed exclusively for this series set!

The SUCRE COEUR series is our first digital boxed set, featuring complete series and exclusive new content with a discounted complete series price of $8.99 at your favorite digital retailer.

Add it to your Goodreads TBR shelf at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43383568-sucre-coeur.

Preorder at the IP Web Store, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and Kobo.

SUCRE COEUR includes:

DEFINITELY, MAYBE, YOURS: Seattle-based baker Craig Oliver leads a life that is happily routine: baking cupcakes for an enormous family reunion, managing Sucre Coeur for its frequently absent owner and closing out his day with a pint at the local pub. He has a kind heart, a knack for pastry and a weakness for damaged people. Habitual playboy Alex Scheff is looking to drown his sorrows, but instead discovers that he may have a weakness for Englishmen who carry cookies in their pockets. Can a seemingly incompatible pair find the recipe for love in a relationship they claim is casual?

CERTAINLY, POSSIBLY, YOU: Sarita Sengupta is in her last semester of grad school and has finally realized she doesn’t have a career plan, a girlfriend, or a clear outlook on life. She works as a pastry shop’s head decorator, but is otherwise drifting without direction until a friend’s birthday party ends with her waking up in the unexpected company of Maritza Quiñones, a pretty ballroom dancer whose cheerful charm and laser focus sets Sarita on a path to making all of the choices she’s been avoiding.

ABSOLUTELY, ALMOST, PERFECT: Craig Oliver and Alex Scheff lead a charmed life. Craig is part owner of Sucre Coeur, the bakery he’s loved and managed for years. Alex is an up-and-coming Seattle photographer. Their relationship has been going strong for a year, and everything is absolutely perfect—right up until Craig receives a wedding invitation from his long-estranged brother. As Craig grows tense over seeing his brother for the first time in years, Alex can’t control his anxiety over meeting Craig’s family. At the wedding in an English hamlet, boisterous Scottish mothers, smirking teenage sisters, and awkward ex-boyfriends complicate the sweet life they lead.